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April 4th to April 6th is the Tomb-Sweeping Day holiday in China, so our business will be closed. Please know that all inquiries, quotations and delivery will be delayed for 3-5 days.
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China Culture-Tomb-Sweeping Day
Tomb-Sweeping Day, also known as Walking Festival, Walking Festival, March Festival, ancestor worship festival, etc., is a festival for offering sacrifices, ancestor worship and grave sweeping from April 4 to 6 every year. Tomb-Sweeping Day, which originated from ancestral belief and custom of spring worship in ancient times, has both natural and humanistic connotations. It is both a natural solar point and a traditional festival. Tomb-Sweeping Day, Spring Festival, Dragon Boat Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival are also called the four traditional festivals in China.
According to legend, Tomb-Sweeping Day began with the "tomb sacrifice" ceremony of ancient emperors and generals, which started in the Zhou Dynasty and has a history of more than 2,500 years. Tomb-Sweeping Day was only the name of a solar term at the earliest, and it became a festival to commemorate ancestors related to the Cold Food Festival. The Cold Food Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day are two different festivals. In the Tang Dynasty, the day to worship the grave was designated as the Cold Food Festival. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Tomb-Sweeping Day gradually rose from being attached to the Cold Food Festival to replacing it. During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the old system of the previous generation was generally inherited, and the custom of worshipping ancestors and mourning the deceased relatives in Tomb-Sweeping Day was still prevalent. During the Republic of China, Tomb-Sweeping Day was designated as Arbor Day in 1915, and the history of Tomb-Sweeping Day as Arbor Day ended in 1928. Influenced by the Han culture, ethnic minorities in China have also had the customs of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Although the customs vary from place to place, grave-sweeping, ancestor-worship and outing are the basic themes of Tomb-Sweeping Day. Besides, there are many outdoor recreational activities such as swinging, cuju, flying kites, planting trees and tug of war, as well as food customs such as eating, pushing swallows, curing cheese and youth league. Besides China, some countries and regions in the world have also visited Tomb-Sweeping Day, such as Vietnam, South Korea, Malaysia and Singapore.
On May 20th, 2006, Tomb-Sweeping Day declared by the Ministry of Culture of People's Republic of China (PRC) was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list with the approval of the State Council. In order to carry forward and inherit the national traditional culture, in 2008, Tomb-Sweeping Day was added as a national statutory holiday with one day off, and with the weekend off, three days off.
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